Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. Theodore Roosevelt on war
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. Theodore Roosevelt on wisdom
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. Theodore Roosevelt on women
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt on work
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. Theodore Roosevelt on work
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. Theodore Roosevelt on work
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. Theodore Roosevelt on work
When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all. Theodore Roosevelt on work
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. Theodore Roosevelt on work
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. Theodore Roosevelt on conflict
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt on courage
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Theodore Roosevelt on law